@twtayaan (about 10 likes) summarized KDE’s experimental Kwi terminal: it uses Ghostty’s terminal engine and GPU rendering, with a reported DOOM fire animation at 870 FPS versus Konsole’s 23 FPS on the same machine, plus Kitty image protocol, Wayland fract...
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KDE’s experimental Kwi terminal aims ~35× faster GPU rendering via Ghostty’s engine
@twtayaan (about 10 likes) summarized KDE’s experimental Kwi terminal: it uses Ghostty’s terminal engine and GPU rendering, with a reported DOOM fire animation at 870 FPS versus Konsole’s 23 FPS on the same machine, plus Kitty image protocol, Wayland fract...
@twtayaan (about 10 likes) summarized KDE’s experimental Kwi terminal: it uses Ghostty’s terminal engine and GPU rendering, with a reported DOOM fire animation at 870 FPS versus Konsole’s 23 FPS on the same machine, plus Kitty image protocol, Wayland fractional scaling, and Plasma system colors. Source linked: the...
Hardware and robotics watchers may want to track whether this becomes a product, benchmark, or deployment signal.
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